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PREhospital Prediction of the Risk of Intracranial Hemorrhagic Injury in the Elderly Patient with a Fall

Sponsor: University Hospital, Toulouse

Summary

Monocentric study at Toulouse University Hospital. A questionnaire collecting the elements of the study is made available to regulating physicians. The regulating doctor will take charge of the call according to the service's protocol, filling in the regulation form on the Appli-SAMU software. A callback at D7 for patients not transferred and/or not scanned will be carried out by a clinical research associate to gather information on the neurological evolution. If, during this telephone interview, the neurological evolution is not good (GOS-E score \< 7), an investigating physician will call back the patient or his trusted person/family/legal representative in order to carry out a medical assessment and propose appropriate management if necessary. Patients who have undergone brain imaging will not be recontacted, as it has now been established that normal brain imaging performed on an emergency basis eliminates the risk of delayed cerebral hemorrhagic lesions, even in patients on anticoagulants.

Official title: Development of a Rule for Predicting the Risk of Intracranial Hemorrhagic Injury in Elderly Patients Contacting SAMU Centre-15 for Head Trauma Following a Fall from Their Height

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